New feature: "Reject Message"

[Julian Field]

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It wasn't in the 4.48.4-1 but it was in 4.48.4-2, sorry about that.

On 2 Dec 2005, at 14:10, Remco Barendse wrote:

> Hi Julian!
>
> Could it be that this feature is in the Dec 1st release but that  
> the report that languages.conf is referencing too was not included  
> in the RPM upgrade package? :)
>
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Julian Field wrote:
>
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>> When you want to reject messages to or from a particular address, the
>> usual answer is "do it in the MTA". The hazard with this is that the
>> rejection message sent back to the sender is very brief and very
>> technical. Somewhere in it, the message will probably say "550 Access
>> denied" or some equally unhelpful message.
>>
>> So now there is a "Reject Message" setting which you should use with
>> a ruleset. When this evaluates to "yes", then the "Rejection Report"
>> message is sent back to the sender, and the message is dropped. If
>> you want to archive mail that gets this treatment, then use an equal
>> ruleset on the "Archive Mail" setting. The "Rejection Report" can
>> also be a ruleset, so you can different reports back to different
>> places.
>>
>> This allows you to produce a readable report instead of the unhelpful
>> technical garbage produced by most MTAs.
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